Bill Gates and Angelina Jolie are once again the world’s most admired man and woman in YouGov’s annual study of which public figures the people of our planet look up to.
Tech pioneer and philanthropist Gates has topped the list every time YouGov has conducted the survey, while Jolie has also come first in each of the three surveys since 2015 when separate male and female categories were introduced.
In the US, former President Barack Obama and former First Lady Michelle Obama top the lists.
This year, the study expanded to cover the views of people in 35 countries – the most ever – and means that YouGov interviewed more than 37,000 people to compile the list.
Interestingly enough YouGov offers another graphic which shows that there is only one country where Donald Trump is more admired that Barack Obama.
But just barely.
Trump is NEVER going to emerge from Obama's shadow, no matter what he does.
President Obama and First Lady Michelle are ALWAYS going to surpass Trump and his wife in being liked, respected and admired.
ReplyDeleteTrump is too much of a mobster, liar and fraud and his wife is a " " (you complete the word)that is difficult to understand when she speaks even though she's lived in the USA for years. I'm sure she is a nice enough woman, but she'll never be as well thought of as is Michelle Obama.
I can hardly wait until we never hear of any members of the Trump family. Trump is an embarrassment to our country and very much disliked throughout the world.
I can't believe an idiot like Angelina Jolie is above Michelle Obama. She is worthless.
ReplyDeleteFor that matter, why are Taylor swift and Madonna on the list? People admire others for different reasons.
DeleteJolie? How exactly did she beat out a bowl of oatmeal?
ReplyDeleteFuck tinydjt "“We’ve cut more regulations in a year and a quarter than any administration, whether it’s four years, eight years or, in one case, 16 years,” he said. “Should we go back to 16 years? Congressman, can we have that extended? The last time I jokingly said that, the papers started saying 'he's got despotic tendencies!' No, I'm not looking to do it, unless you want to do it.”"“He's now president for life. President for life,” Trump said of Xi. “No, he's great. And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot someday.”"rump has praised several world leaders who have moved to consolidate their power and extend or remove term limits, including Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s Tayyip Erdogan." former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright accused Trump of strengthening dictators abroad and of a “lack of democratic instinct of any kind.”!
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/04/trump-jokes-president-16-years/
I certainly hope that Trump doesn't get to serve more than 8 years!
DeleteROFLMFAO. DJT won’t serve 4 years.
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I guess he will serve. He’ll be serving time @ ADX Florence for the rest of his life. Patriots rule. Fuck traitors.
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Trump may not serve more than 8 more days. He is finished, over, out. Just waiting to be flushed.
DeleteYou guys seem to think that we have a Congress that could get the votes to impeach this idiot, but guess what, we don't.
DeleteOT.
ReplyDeleteStormy Daniels is on The View Tuesday 17th.
(For anyone that can also stomach Meghan McCain and her dinosaur brain.)
Not ever watched the view but might DVR this one just to see what she has to say.
DeleteAngelina Jolie? That's kind of weird, but whatever, right? If we weren't a celebrity society we'd have not ended up with a reality star as our POTUS.
ReplyDeleteAngelina Jolie serves. With time and money.
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I truly don't know why they keep McCain on that show. She's combative and a pain in the ass. Plus, she's gained a huge amount of weight and doesn't know how to dress to diminish her obesity.
ReplyDeleteHer wardrobe makes her bear resemblance to Antarctica, the continent. They should move her from the end of the table to an 18-Wheeler in the parking lot.
DeleteShe looks pregnant.
DeleteAwww, that poor little sweetie Malaria didn't make the cut. Gee, and she's so warm and friendly.....
ReplyDeleteI’m still waiting for her third lady agenda.
DeleteComey Memoir Claims Trump Was Obsessed With Disproving ‘Pee Tape’ Allegation
ReplyDeletehttps://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-pee-tape-comey-memoir_us_5acfd3a2e4b077c89ce6cb1e
James Comey’s memoir: Trump fixates on proving lewd dossier allegations false
ReplyDeletehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/james-comeys-memoir-trump-fixates-on-proving-lewd-dossier-allegations-false/2018/04/12/64493866-3ce2-11e8-974f-aacd97698cef_story.html
don't forget, J, your copy is arriving ~ Apr 20 - Apr 26.
Angelina Jolie?! All you have to do to be the most admired woman in the world is fuck Brad Pitt? Something is wrong here.
ReplyDeleteIn her defense, she does a lot of humanitarian work but, Hollywood fan I’m not, too uppity for me. Give me the REAL.
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DeleteUNHCR ambassadorship
"We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning. All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us."
—Jolie on her motives for joining UNHCR in 2001[95]
Jolie first witnessed the effects of a humanitarian crisis while filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) in war-torn Cambodia, an experience she later credited with having brought her a greater understanding of the world.[96] Upon her return home, Jolie contacted the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for information on international trouble spots.[95] To learn more about the conditions in these areas, she began visiting refugee camps around the world. In February 2001, she went on her first field visit, an 18-day mission to Sierra Leone and Tanzania; she later expressed her shock at what she had witnessed.[95]
In the following months, Jolie returned to Cambodia for two weeks and met with Afghan refugees in Pakistan, where she donated $1 million in response to an international UNHCR emergency appeal,[97][98] the largest donation UNHCR had ever received from a private individual.[99] She covered all costs related to her missions and shared the same rudimentary working and living conditions as UNHCR field staff on all of her visits.[95] Jolie was named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador at UNHCR headquarters in Geneva on August 27, 2001.[100]
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Jolie at a UNHCR celebration of World Refugee Day in June 2005
Over the next decade, she went on more than 40 field missions, meeting with refugees and internally displaced persons in over 30 countries.[101] In 2002, when asked what she hoped to accomplish, she stated, "Awareness of the plight of these people. I think they should be commended for what they have survived, not looked down upon."[97] To that end, her 2001–02 field visits were chronicled in her book Notes from My Travels, which was published in October 2003 in conjunction with the release of her humanitarian drama Beyond Borders.
Jolie aimed to visit what she termed "forgotten emergencies," crises that media attention had shifted away from.[102] She became noted for travelling to war zones,[103] such as Sudan's Darfur region during the Darfur conflict,[104] the Syrian-Iraqi border during the Second Gulf War,[105] where she met privately with U.S. troops and other multi-national forces,[106] and the Afghan capital Kabul during the war in Afghanistan, where three aid workers were murdered in the midst of her first visit.[103] To aid her travels, she began taking flying lessons in 2004 with the aim of ferrying aid workers and food supplies around the world;[17][107] she now holds a private pilot license with instrument rating and owns a Cirrus SR22 and Cessna 208 Caravan single-engine aircraft.[108][109][110]
On April 17, 2012, after more than a decade of service as a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, Jolie was promoted to the rank of Special Envoy to High Commissioner António Guterres, the first to take on such a position within the organization. In her expanded role, she was given authority to represent Guterres and UNHCR at the diplomatic level, with a focus on major refugee crises.[111] In the months following her promotion, she made her first visit as Special Envoy—her third over all—to Ecuador, where she met with Colombian refugees,[112] and she accompanied Guterres on a week-long tour of Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and Iraq, to assess the situation of refugees from neighboring Syria.[113] Since then, Jolie has gone on over a dozen field missions around the world to meet with refugees and undertake advocacy on their behalf.[101][114]
Donald Trump is a MURDERER. You could even make the case he is a serial killer since more than one person he has deported has ended up dead.
ReplyDeleteBut in this case, it is clear that once deported, this innocent, law abiding man will be killed. He has a death sentence waiting for him in Egypt. There is no reason for him to be deported except that Trump is a MURDERER.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/new-jersey-teacher-detained-egypt-death-sentence_us_5acfdbbee4b077c89ce6cd4f
"Ahmed Abdelbasit, a New Jersey teacher who faces a death sentence in Egypt for his pro-democracy activism, was detained last week outside his Jersey City apartment by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Three days later, a notice came in the mail saying his asylum case had been transferred to an immigration court."
"HuffPost has learned that Abdelbasit, 33, was taken to a detention center in Elizabeth, New Jersey, where he was forced to turn over his belongings and was given an orange jumpsuit to wear. Abdelbasit has been held there ever since.
ICE confirmed to HuffPost that he is being held at Elizabeth Detention Center on administrative immigration violations. ICE would not elaborate on what those violations were.
It was only after Abdelbasit was detained did his lawyer learn that his asylum case was transferred to immigration court in a notice that arrived three days after Abdelbasit’s arrest, HuffPost has learned, leaving the teacher and his lawyer with more questions than answers."
"Now ICE has classified Abdelbasit as “deportable from the United States,” according to Hughes. It is unclear why, since the Egyptian immigrant has fulfilled all his application requirements and interviews, as well as repeatedly checking in with immigration officials since his initial arrival, his lawyer said.
ICE has ramped up its deportation efforts under President Donald Trump, increasingly deporting civilians with no criminal records, including business owners, mothers and Army veterans. During Trump’s first year in office, in which he signed an executive order that granted ICE immense authority to arrest undocumented immigrants, the U.S. saw a 171% increase of non-criminal individuals arrested in 2017 compared with 2016."
"Abdelbasit is scheduled to appear at a hearing next month in immigration court. He is worried about what’s to come.
“If they send me back to Egypt, I will be hung right away,” he told HuffPost by phone from the detention center. “Everything is damaged. Everything.”"
Damaged. Shit. Everything *is* damaged. Our country is damaged. The world is damaged. We have an extremely damaged individual in a position to do the most, worst damage ever to this country and the world.
Damage doesn't begin to cover it.
I hope someone steps up to protect this man.
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DeleteAnyone remember the piece John Oliver did a few weeks ago about some DOJ lawyer that said he could teach a three year old enough law to defend themselves in Immigration Court?
Deletehttps://www.yahoo.com/news/doj-tinkers-immigration-courts-speed-deportations-090046071.html
"The sequence of events that lead to immigration court vary from case to case, especially now, as even broader categories of people — ranging from convicted criminals to recent border crossers seeking asylum, longtime residents and even a few U.S. citizens — are getting caught up in the Trump administration’s sweeping enforcement dragnet. But for all who find themselves in front of an immigration judge, pitted against a government attorney, often without legal representation of their own, the offense and punishment are always the same: unlawful presence in the United States, which in and of itself is not a crime, and deportation to their country of origin."
"Two developments within the past week have alarmed immigration advocates, who’ve long fretted over how Attorney General Jeff Sessions, an outspoken immigration hardliner, might wield his influence over this already byzantine court system. First, the head of the DOJ’s Executive Office for Immigration Review decreed that judges in the system would have to work faster, setting a quota of 700 cases a year each, as part of a broader effort by Sessions to help ease the court’s massive backlog of 650,000 cases.
Then, according to a report in the Washington Post, the Justice Department put in motion plans to suspend the Legal Orientation Program, which informs detained immigrants of the procedures they face and their legal rights, without offering legal representation. The program is being halted for a review of its effectiveness, according to the Post, but advocates for immigrants suspect a different motive."
"“Unlike criminal court, where you have a constitutional right to an attorney because the due process rights are so fundamental and your liberty can be taken away, in immigration court you have no right to an attorney even though you could be exiled to a place where your life and liberty may be in jeopardy,” he said."
Like sent to Egypt to be executed as a political dissident for demanding Democracy.
"Even U.S. citizens can, in unusual circumstances, be entangled in this complex and high-stakes legal system. The Legal Aid Society has had about six cases within the last year of citizens caught up in the deportation machinery."
Camel's nose. Beginning of taking away the rights of U.S. Citizens.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/thomas-homan-trump-ice-director_us_5acbae94e4b09d0a11964dc4
Delete"Shortly after taking control of ICE, Homan asked the Justice Department to challenge the Supreme Court’s ruling in the case of Zadvydas v. Davis, which bars immigration authorities from detaining immigrants for more than six months unless they pose a national security or public safety threat. He set in writing a new policy allowing ICE officers to detain unauthorized immigrants at courthouses, over the objection of federal judges. And he walked back a policy he himself had signed as head of ERO in 2016 that required ICE to generally release pregnant women from immigrant detention. "
"But last June, when Homan was supposed to be explaining to a House subcommittee why ICE needed a 29 percent budget increase to $7.9 billion, he pierced the bubble of diplomacy that has surrounded the agency since its founding — with a threat.
“If you’re in this country illegally and you committed a crime by entering this country, you should be uncomfortable,” Homan said. “You should look over your shoulder, and you need to be worried.”
Those words transformed Homan from a career law enforcement official into the face of Trump’s deportation agenda. In the months that followed, he continued to defend the fact that, under Trump, the crushing weight of immigration law can fall as heavily upon an undocumented parent of American children as it can on a convicted murderer. This January, he went the farthest yet, telling Fox News that the Justice Department should consider prosecuting mayors and city council members who pass so-called “sanctuary” policies that limit local cooperation with ICE. "
What a bullshit list.
ReplyDeleteI have zero Idea why angie or gates would be #1. Admired? for what?
ReplyDeleteThe Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation focuses on disease prevention and clean water for the WORLD, and Jolie is known for her extremely dedicated —above and beyond— philanthropic and humanitarian selfless work.
DeleteIn my estimation Bill Gates and Angelina Jolie fall way behind the Obamas and the Bidens for the "most admired" prize.
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